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Lord of the Rings

September 2024

  • film still of a woman in a green cloak riding a white horse

    Hell on Middle-earth? The Rings of Power fails to spin streaming gold

    Most expensive TV show ever is in its second season, but reviews are disappointing and audiences are staying away
  • Spoiler alert … Ian McKellan as Gandalf in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

    Week in geek
    Will The Hunt for Gollum really be two movies? That’s got to be a stretch

    If Ian McKellen is right, a double feature Lord of the Rings movie based on a story gleaned from Tolkien’s appendices seems overly thin, even with an AI Orlando Bloom
  • Actor Ian McKellen in suit and flat cap

    Ian McKellen says he is fine but has ‘emotional residues’ after onstage fall

    Actor, 85, says he is taking the rest of the year off after accident in June but plans to keep playing Gandalf

August 2024

  • All the rage … (clockwise from top) Homelander from The Boys; Supt Bob Weekes from Piglets; Sister Night from Watchmen.

    ‘You know your show is garbage!’: inside TV’s biggest backlashes

  • Hugo Weaving as Elrond in The Lord of the Rings.

    Week in geek
    Hugo Weaving says he spent too long on Middle-earth. But he’s not the first actor to detest a classic

    Ben Child
  • Morfydd Clark as Galadriel

    TV review
    The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 review – needs to remember it’s a drama

  • LOTR S2 FG 01202423 Still002R. Damrod the Hill-Troll; Sam Hazeldine as Adar

    ‘It was bloody hard work’: what it’s like to be a 16ft TV troll

June 2024

  • ‘Stirrings in Tolkien land’ … Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom and Ian McKellen in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002

    Week in geek
    Hunt for Gollum: are Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen being quietly dropped?

    News of Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis’s eyebrow-raising return to Middle-earth seems to have passed the two stars by. Are Aragorn and Gandalf to be replaced?

May 2024

  • man in a dirty shirt holding a gun

    ‘The daddy of them all’: readers on their favourite movie franchises

  • 2010, INCEPTION<br>JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Film 'INCEPTION' (2010) Directed By CHRISTOPHER NOLAN 08 July 2010 SSX92401 Allstar/WARNER BROS. (USA/UK 2010) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of WARNER BROS. and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To WARNER BROS. is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Week in geek
    Hollywood should look beyond Star Wars and Lord of the Rings retreads for sequels

    Ben Child
  • Gollum in The Hobbit in 2012.

    Week in geek
    The Hunt for Gollum: are Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis making a Lord of the Rings fan film?

  • Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis.

    The Hunt for Gollum: Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis to work on new Lord of the Rings film

March 2024

  • 2001, LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWS<br>IAN MCKELLEN Character(s): Gandalf the Grey Film 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING; THE LORD OF THE RINGS I' (2001) Directed By PETER JACKSON 10 December 2001 CTL37461 Allstar/NEW LINE CINEMA (USA/NZ 2001) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of NEW LINE CINEMA and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To NEW LINE CINEMA is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    When an outgoing Tory minister like Robert Halfon channels Gandalf, the magic of Tolkien begins to pall

    Alex Clark
    From hippies to death metal and MPs, one book seems to rule them all but, oh, how I wish it didn’t

January 2024

  • No Hobbit harmed … Dominic Monaghan as Merry and Billy Boyd as Pippin.

    Week in geek
    Did Peter Jackson nearly kill off one of the hobbits in Lord of the Rings?

    Studio bigwigs were apparently keen to ice one of the halflings in the trilogy but as the director realised, killing off a main character – just because – isn’t always the answer

December 2023

  • Jason Connolly, New Zealand

    ‘I left the cinema, walked home and announced I was moving’: films that made people emigrate

    If The Lord of the Rings had you yearning for New Zealand, or Julia Roberts on a bike made you fall in love with Bali, you’re not alone. But did you grab your passport and start packing? Meet the people who did

May 2023

  • Terminator Genisys.

    Week in geek
    AI is coming for Hollywood scriptwriters – this is how they are going to do it

    Artificial intelligence mashups of Lord of the Rings, Pixar and Wes Anderson are amusing novelties, but how long before the robots are generating whole screenplays – and can we be sure they’re not already?
  • Saurona triangula, named after Sauron, the lord of Mordor.

    ‘Rimmed with fire’: rare butterfly genus named after Sauron in Lord of the Rings

    Newly discovered species with vivid orange and black markings named for evil ruler of Mordor to pique interest in conservation
  • Viggo Mortensen and Liv Tyler in Return of the King, the final film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

    Return of the king: what can the movies teach us about the coronation?

    Icy rejection in Welles’s Chimes at Midnight, Chalamet stripped to the waist, a swaggering Chris Hemsworth – which will Charles channel on Saturday?

April 2023

  • 2001, LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWS<br>EYE OF SAURON Film 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING; THE LORD OF THE RINGS I' (2001) Directed By PETER JACKSON 10 December 2001 SAF21163 Allstar/NEW LINE CINEMA (USA/NZ 2001) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of NEW LINE CINEMA and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To NEW LINE CINEMA is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Week in geek
    Are we right to be nervous about the new Lord of the Rings movies?

    Elijah Wood has expressed his ‘surprise’ over plans for new movies of Tolkien’s fantasy classic – but they couldn’t be any worse than the book-butchering Hobbit trilogy

March 2023

  • Brad Pitt stars as Achilles in Troy.

    Week in geek
    Hits and myths: why has Hollywood abandoned ancient Greece?

    Tolkien-inspired mythology has taken over our screens while a treasure chest of epic fantasy tales lies unused
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